Inside the VC and the NVA...

This book is just awesome. It is a wealth of information gathered by the documents and letters that were taken off of wounded, dead, captured, and those that surrendered (Chieu Hoi). Also, taken and printed were some of the RAND Corporation interviews with the captured VC/NVA.

So far, from what I have gathered (only a few chapters) is that the country was divided into three (3) distinct regional groupings; 1) Northeners, from the Red River Valley. 2) Centralists, from the southern part of North Vietnam and the northern regions of South Vietnam. And... 3) Southerners, from the Saigon and Mekong Delta areas of South Vietnam. This created friction on the small unit level that at times, got down right nasty. Each group dispised the other for one reason or another. More to come.